PROGRESS ON THE SHOWER

Here is a picture of the element used to partition our shower off from the shower entry area, the one which makes having a shower door unnecessary. The base of the structure is a couple of two by fours, and they are covered with cement board. All seams are taped and imbedded in thin set.

Likewise all seams on the walls of the shower are taped with thin set applied. Then the application sat for a day.

Yesterday plans for the design of the shower came more firmly into view. Of course, it has to be made out of tile and etc that is on hand, so I started pulling out possibilities.

At this point everything in the new bathroom and bedroom is very neutral, except for the paint by numbers paintings in the water closet, but that door can be closed.

Below is part of the alcove where the urinal posing as a sink is located.

From this area which is defined by a wall of glass windows, you can access shower, sink and water closet.

The neutral setting of the bedroom. To the left around these closets is the bathroom.

Below are candidates for the shower bottom. I am going to use the off white porcelain and save the brown for something else. The orange and blue will help create figures on the shower wall, in a real departure from all the neutrals.

As soon as I saw the conformation of the shower at the beginning of construction, I could not get Matisse‘s “La Danse” out of my mind. I want to take this idea, and create a circle of simplified nudes, maybe with cubist faces.

This is so interesting. There are two versions of Matisse’s famous work. The one we as Westerners know the best is the less intense version. This one came first. The second version, with more detail and more intensity came second.

The version above was done for a Russian businessman, and it stayed in his home in Moscow until 1917. Later it found its way into the Hermitage. I wonder if this version is less known to us because of where it lived and the Cold War.